Jack Davenport: What is the worst job you have done?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jack Davenport said elsewhere, not written here

Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

Erin O'Connor English model

Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

Julien Macdonald Welsh fashion designer

Working in a betting office on Grand National day. I was 17 and my hair was scrunched like Mick Hucknall’s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2016 source ↗

Charles Dance British actor

Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗

Jenna Coleman English actress

After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗